Quoting Practice Game
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Lying game to practise phrases for quoting sources, especially useful for EAP classes
Lesson Plan Content:
Phrases for quoting practice bluffing game
Choose a topic below and quote someone (someone you know, someone in the media, someone famous, etc), making up a quotation if you can’t think of anything true. Can your partner can guess if it is a real quote or something that you have made up?
Useful language for quoting sourcesA great quote on this subject is… According to… In the words of…,… … once said that… As… (famously) said…. I’d like to quote… (I’m not sure who said it but) there is a quote which goes… I read a quotation that went (something like)… I’d like to share a few words by… There’s a great/ famous line in… … wrote/ Someone wrote in a recent article/ book that… |
Common topics of quotations:
- Age/ Teenagers/ Middle age/ Old people
- Alcohol/ Smoking/ Drugs
- Animals/ Pets
- Art
- Business/ Work
- Death
- Education/ Studying/ School/ University
- Family
- Finance/ Money
- Food/ Diet/ Dieting
- Free time/ Hobbies
- Friends/ Friendship
- Happiness
- Health
- History
- Home
- Intelligence
- Japan/ Japanese people/ Another country/ Another nationality
- Law/ Lawyers/ The police
- Leadership/ Management
- Love/ Romance/ Dating/ Marriage
- Men/ Women
- Parenting
- Patriotism/ Nationalism
- Politics/ Politicians/ Government
- Religion
- Science/ Technology
- Sport/ Exercise
- Success/ Failure
- Time/ Time management
- Travel/ Transport/ Holidays
- War/ Violence
When you finish, brainstorm phrases for quoting sources, then compare with those above.
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